Notices by Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)

https://theintercept.com/2026/02/05/dhs-ice-ad-facebook-meta-instagram/

Facebook is running ads for the deportation thugs, ads that *included imagery and music intended to appeal to white nationalists and neo-Nazis.*

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/05/we-can-reverse-americas-decline-heres-how

Bernie Sanders: *We can reverse America's decline.*

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#corrupter
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/05/donald-trump-making-china-great-again

The corrupter is making China great.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/05/long-history-of-failure-to-tackle-police-racism
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn839398xzpo

*The long history of failure to tackle UK police racism.* More about this.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/2/4/2367222/-Climate-Change-is-Not-Just-Happening-Far-Away?_=2026-02-04T14:42:42.000-08:00

Long Island has got 5°F hotter in the winter (on the average) since 55 years ago. This leads to various dangers to human health, wildlife, homes, and farms, including the spread of insect pests as well as weather itself.

[2/2] able to clear my name.

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/05/london-man-sainsburys-facial-recognition-facewatch

A British supermarket accused a customer of shoplifting based on a reported face recognition match - in fact, it had accused the wrong person - and then demanded he run nonfree software to clear his name. That was successful, since the database had no record of _his_ face. But if that error had happened to me, since I would not run that nonfree software, I think would have not been

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/06/americans-killed-israel-military

*Families of Americans killed by Israel face uphill climb to justice.*

https://theonion.com/trumprx-unveils-1-million-citizenship-pill/

(satire) *TrumpRx Unveils $1 Million Citizenship Pill.*

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-targets-new-ceo-ice-out-of-minnesota?nowrapper=true
https://stallman.org/actionnetwork-letter-instructions.html

US citizens: call on Target's New CEO to help protect Minnesota from deportation thugs. See the instructions for how to sign this letter campaign without running any nonfree JavaScript code--not trivial, but not hard.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/03/music-and-dancing-signify-defiance-at-celebratory-funerals-of-irans-protesters

*Music and dancing signify defiance at celebratory funerals of Iran's protesters.*

[2/2] present in a beach, but they demonstrate the magnitude of change that humans are already causing in this early stage of climate breakdown.

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/03/human-made-materials-uk-beaches-sediments-study-climate-breakdown

* As much as half of some British beaches' coarse sediments consist of human-made materials such as brick, concrete, glass and industrial waste, a study has found. Climate breakdown, which has caused more frequent and destructive coastal storms, has led to an increase in these substances on beaches.* This doesn't imply that those substance do specific harm when

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/04/idf-bulldoze-gaza-war-cemetery-allied-graves-satellite-images

Last fall the Israeli army bulldozed graves in a war cemetery in which were buried Allied soldiers who died in World War I and II. Some people are shocked. You'd think that some people are more concerned about symbolic insult to deceased Australians than about the killing of living Palestinians.

[2/2] if we must choose one or the other, I would choose the former. Fascist government is a worse problem than poverty.

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/05/democrats-ice-reforms-funding-bill
https://stallman.org/archives/2025-may-aug.html#6_July_2025_(Urgent:_Harms_of_the_Big_Bad_Bill)

*Democrats' 10 demands to "rein in" [the deportation thugs] – the full list of proposed reforms.* I support all these. I also support taking away the extra funds the deportation thugs received in the Big Bad Bill and giving them to medical treatment for nonwealthy Americans, and we ought to demand both. But

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/04/nsw-hate-speech-rules-classrooms-ntwnfb

*New "hate speech" rules for NSW schools could stifle classroom discussions about Gaza, teachers warn.* Punishing "hate speech" as a crime generally tends to lead to repression.

[2/2] system, including a human being, so I think it qualifies as "intelligence".

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/feb/04/on-the-future-of-species-by-adrian-woolfson-review-are-we-on-the-verge-of-creating-synthetic-life

Discussing the possibility and danger of artificial species of life, being created and released. It should be noted that AlphaFold2 is not perfect. It can predict the three-dimesional shape of of most amino-acid chains, but there is a substantial fraction that it gets wrong. Nonetheless, it does a better job of this than any other known

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/03/trump-republicans-nationalize-elections-midterms

*Trump suggests Republicans should "take over" elections to protect the [Republican] party* from losing elections.